Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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The year 1978-1979 has been a year in which the unexpected has been commonplace. We have seen our football team come from nowhere to grab the brass ring in the C.C.I.W.; a confer- ence championship. Equally amazing was the ruling of Hockey league officials that our hockey team was ineligible to compete for the much sought league championship, which was well within our grasp. Other things which occurred were the estab- lishment of Alpha Phi as a sorority on campus, Hall Director Calvin Saunders leaving, to be replaced by Assistant Football Coach Charles Goehl, and the treat (?) of living through one of the coldest winters in recent memories. Ah yes, we had seen the likes of some eighty nine or so inches of flakes, as well as a steady string of days with the mercury well below zero. Some other welcome changes were the reopening of Old Main as the main building for classes on campus. The gym also reopened, albeit later than expected, in time for Second Semester. And Irion Hall, erstwhile home of the Music department and the Center for Business and Economics nears completion of the re- novation within. On a larger scale, we have in recent days read of the first major nuclear disaster in U.S. history at Three Mile Island in Pennsyl- vania, heard of toppling of The Shah of Iran by the weight of a strange combine of Marxists and Moslems, whose leader the Ayatollah Khomeini rules in a manner which does not appear much different than that of the Shah himself. Our President, Jimmy Carter normalized relations with the largest nation on earth, helped to establish the first real peace treaty in the Middle East, and changed the part in his hair, all in about five months. This year then, has had much that distinguishes it from both past and future years. We present this to you, the reader, in the hopes of helping you to revive the memories of these some- times funny, sometimes depressing, but only rarely dull days. Please, read this book and remember and enjoy.